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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Almost took a sick day',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="health">
	<h2>Health</h2>
	<p>
		I woke up today with a terrible headache and nausea.
		I thought I&apos;d have to take a trip to my workplace today and tell them I couldn&apos;t come in tomorrow.
		I was kind of looking forward to taking tomorrow off.
		It&apos;d be a terrible day, but between dealing with the symptoms, I could probably squeeze in a third of a day of studying in.
		If I was lucky.
		And if I could keep myself on task.
		That&apos;s not going to happen though.
		I feel fine now.
		I don&apos;t know what the problem was when I woke up ...
		Mourning sickness, maybe?
		Could I be pregnant?
		No, that can&apos;t be right; I&apos;m still a virgin.
		And male.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My English course is driving me nuts, and it keeps getting worse.
		I think at this point, I&apos;m mainly using Minetest as a way to keep some of my sanity.
		Two weeks in a row now, we&apos;ve focused on using some obscure library for research.
		First of all, it&apos;s a walled garden.
		Outside search engines can&apos;t get in, so we&apos;re stuck with the internal search engine, which doesn&apos;t work very well.
		Second of all, it&apos;s a walled garden.
		Anything we cite from there won&apos;t matter.
		No one can read the sources, so they add zero credibility.
		Third, it&apos;s a walled garden.
		What exists in there is pretty limited, compared to the greater Internet.
		Three weeks ago, we chose our research topics before being told we&apos;d be stuck with this obtuse library.
		It really wasn&apos;t a reasonable thing to put in the curriculum.
	</p>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Intuitively, the \$5000 with an interest of 10% per year for twenty years seems like a better option than the \$10000 with an interest of only 5% per year for the same span of time.
			However, we don&apos;t have to guess at this, or even put a whole lot of effort into solving it.
			It&apos;s such basic maths that even a calculator (or a &quot;galculator&quot;, as it were) can solve it!
			Let&apos;s see what we get for the halved starting sum with the doubled interest:
		</p>
		<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./coursework/MATH1201/low_principle_high_interest.png" alt="5000*1.1^20≈33637.4997466" class="framed-centred-image" width="716" height="375"/>
		<p>
			Let&apos;s compare that to the doubled principle balance with the halved interest rate:
		</p>
		<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./coursework/MATH1201/high_principle_low_interest.png" alt="10000*1.05^20≈26532.9770514" class="framed-centred-image" width="716" height="375"/>
		<p>
			The only issue now is that the word &quot;better&quot; is a word of opinion.
			However, assuming you like having more money and we&apos;re aiming for a bigger number, the \$5000 with an interest of 10% per year is <strong>*definitely*</strong> the better deal.
			It leaves us with approximately \$33637.50, as opposed to only approximately \$26532.98.
			In other words, our hunch pays off, and we should go with the larger interest rate.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		Last week, I met the school&apos;s deadlines, but I didn&apos;t meet my own personal deadlines for getting work done.
		This week, I&apos;m trying to do better.
		The maths discussion was almost <strong>*painfully*</strong> easy this week, so I jumped right on that to buy myself a bit of time I thought I&apos;d need.
		I didn&apos;t need that time so badly after all; I also wrote up my discussion post for tomorrow, though I&apos;ve not yet submitted it.
		I then formatted a questionnaire I need to print out and take to work tomorrow for the English course.
		We&apos;re supposed to do quantitative research.
		Well, quantitative or qualitative, our choice, but I have no idea how to approach the topic from a qualitative standpoint.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest</h2>
	<img src="/y.st./source/y.st./static/img/CC_BY-SA_3.0/minetest.net./weblog/2018/03/01.png" alt="A coral reef" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="600"/>
	<p>
		I think I&apos;ll be playing a lot more Minetest than I initially anticipated, at least until the end of the term.
		It helps me unwind from dealing with the English course.
		I might not play so often or for so long at a time once the term ends.
		Who knows how the next term will be though ...
		I mean, this maths course isn&apos;t so bad.
		It&apos;s not like my plummeted interest in my studies (due to the school&apos;s censorship) makes all the courses horrible.
		It just prevents me from seeing the horrible courses in a positive light.
		If I end up with two not-so-bad courses next term, the term won&apos;t be so bad itself.
		Anyway ...
	</p>
	<p>
		Today&apos;s main task in Minetest was to collect the plant and fungi samples.
		I got all of them.
		I almost gave up looking for cacti, but didn&apos;t, knowing I wouldn&apos;t want to have to come back out into the wilderness looking for it later.
		All I needed was one node of it, and I&apos;d be done searching for cacti forever; I could grow my own after that.
		After all, getting the samples I need to grow my own plants and fungi was the whole point of the expedition.
		Along the way, I saw an odd rock formation in an unnavigable desert, but I neglected to get a shot of it.
		I also found a few reefs, but I left those alone.
		I tend to leave reefs alone because once moved, the live coral is gone forever.
		It dies when you mine it, and it never grows or multiplies.
		I also leave clay alone, as I don&apos;t know what to do with it.
	</p>
</section>
END
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